Alarm Group Tutorial

On top of alarms being automatically grouped together in the Grouped Alarms Report template creators can now create custom alarm groups to further group related alarms together.

Grouped alarms are treated as a single alarms with multiple alarm levels.

Here is how to group alarms. Consider, for example, a template that contains related alarms:

Let say we want to group the "Voltage down" and the "Low battery" alarms together. We first create a group to hold the alarms (The "New Alarm Group" command is available in the left orange menu next to the Values tab).

If the name and description fields are left blank, the group will take its name and description from the datatag. The datatag names are company wide. This provides more flexibility if we want to change this group's name on all devices later and also provide's consistency when filtering reports by datatags on fleets of devices.

Once the group is saved. You can edit the datatag name and description by clicking on it:

Then edit each row that you want to be in the group to select the new group:

The result should look like:

Now when you open an equipment dashboard. Instead of showing the alarms separately, they will be displayed in one row. If you click in the row, you can see the alarm events that determine the current group alarm level.